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Landslide metaphor: a cross-linguistic examination

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
In prior natural disasters metaphor and Mandarin corpus analysis, Mandarin滑坡(huá pō) (Landslide in English) stood out and got salient in metaphorical percentage (53.5%) among top ten frequently used natural disaster frames. Departing from this, we made a
Yan Zhang, Wenxing Yang
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An Integrated Approach to Metaphor and Framing in Cognition, Discourse, and Practice, with an Application to Metaphors for Cancer [PDF]

, 2016
In this article, we examine the notion of ‘framing’ as a function of metaphor from three interrelated perspectives—cognitive, discourse-based, and practice-based—with the aim of providing an adaptable blueprint of good practice in framing analysis.
Demjén, Z, Demmen, J, Semino, E
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Parental choice of private tuition: Valuing attention, judging quality and navigating access in England's underregulated supplementary education market

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Private supplementary education is burgeoning worldwide, and over 25% of English children have received private tutoring. The neoliberalisation of education and parents' responsibilisation for children's attainment have driven market growth, but not all can afford to participate.
Sarah L. Holloway, Sam Whewall, Helena Pimlott‐Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustaining the teaching profession: Innovating the ‘golden thread’ in university‐led teacher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the implications of England's ‘golden thread’ policy framework for teacher education, which describes a state‐mandated, linear model of professional learning from initial teacher training and education through to continuing professional development.
Amanda Nuttall, Ed Podesta, Aimee Quickfall, Megan Stephenson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How does dialogic teaching facilitate students' creative thinking? Evidence from a sequential analysis of teacher–student dialogue in primary language classrooms

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Dialogic teaching has been shown to be beneficial for students' learning and achievement. However, few studies have investigated how dialogic teaching may foster students' creative thinking in the classroom. This study examined the sequential patterns of classroom dialogue associated with students' creative thinking.
Yang Tao, Deliang Wang, Gaowei Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphors we think with: the role of metaphor in reasoning. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
The way we talk about complex and abstract ideas is suffused with metaphor. In five experiments, we explore how these metaphors influence the way that we reason about complex issues and forage for further information about them.
Paul H Thibodeau, Lera Boroditsky
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Our World, Our Futures: A dialogic approach to environmental literacy and global citizenship education in primary schools in the Maldives and England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Environmental literacy and global citizenship education (GCE) are necessary to the development of a fairer, more peaceful and more sustainable world, but teachers frequently lack practical examples of their implementation in the classroom.
Claire Lee, Aminath Shiyama, Fathimath Shafeeqa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors and the argument from catastrophe [PDF]

, 2012
Geoeengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy makers and the media.
Beck U., Brahic C., Brigitte Nerlich, Brown N., Burr M. T., Cameron L., Cameron L., Climate change: Is there a plan B?, Cohen D., David L., Fleming J. R., Fleming J. R., Gardiner S. M., Grundmann R., Howell K., Hulme M., Jaspal R., Jones N., Kintisch E., Lakoff G., Life after Copenhagen, Lyons E., Mercer A. M., Pearce F., Richards I. A., Royal Society evaluates geoengineering schemes, Rusi Jaspal, Sands D., Schneider S. H., Shepherd J., Shepherd J., Teller E., To hack the planet, first win trust, Washer P., Washington H., Zinken J.   +35 more
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The inner portrait: What does reflexivity in qualitative health professions education research look like?

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Gabrielle Brand, Steve Wise, Michelle D. Lazarus   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positioning teachers in climate change education: Insights from a Hong Kong Global South perspective

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how prospective teachers in Hong Kong (N = 13) position themselves within climate change education through ‘Global Dialogue for Climate Change Education’, a cross‐institutional teacher education programme facilitating online global dialogues between Hong Kong and the UK.
Sally Wai‐Yan Wan, Suzannie Kit‐Ying Leung, Janet Orchard, Jenny Wanyi Li, Elim Sein‐Yue Hui, Angus Cheng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source